Is there a lack of Native American and African wonders?

[Impaler[WrG]]

Sorry SlavicSoux I dont by that, metal has been universaly desirable to ALL cultures that came in contact with it. For example the Navajo would find nuggets of Native Copper and shape them into jinggle bells. These were valuable enough to serve as a means of exchange, Iron tools would have been still more valuable for all the reasons you mentioned, tools made of stone and wood are inferior in practicaly every concivable way to ones made of metal. The only advantage is they require less knowlage to make.

 

[Dionysius]

The last new Wonder is this famed Malinese University. Requiring knowledge of Paper (not to mention 550 production, double speed with stone) to complete, the University is well worth the trouble it takes to construct simply because it adds +2 research to all buildings associated with your state religion. For civs that focus on religious growth, this could offer a huge boost in research once it's completed. Like the Temple of Artemis, the University generates +8 culture and +2 great people in the city it's built in. Cities that own the University are more likely to generate Great Scientists as well. The University can only be built on Renaissance and later starts and becomes obsolete with the discovery of Computers.

huh. it was the university not the mosque.

 

[NT_Jedi]

To answer the title question: Yes, in the real world. Besides Chichen Itza I can't really think of any construction of african or native american origin that had the purpose or effect of the notable wonders of eurasian origin.

I agree... eventually we might even see a topic called " Is there a lack of female Wonders ? "

 

[dh_epic]

Some people don't do much research outside of the history they're taught in their high school textbooks -- usually written in their own country.

There ARE several significant African wonders. (Native American less so, unless you're talking about Mexico-and-further-south.)

AFRICA:

The Mosque of Djenne
Bete Giyorgis
Timbuktu itself is considered a Wonder (but there are many buildings here)
Temple of Abu Simbel
Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa


AMERICA:

Maccu Picchu
Tenochtitlan itself is considered a Wonder (but there are many buildings here)
The Mayan Temples at Tikal
The Moai Statues
The Temple of the Inscriptions
Christ the Redeemer (significantly non-native, mind you. Panama Canal and Itaipú Dam would go here too.)

Each of these had huge impacts on thousands/millions of people (depending on the era). As deserving as any other wonder.

 

[albefranks]

It's funny how Africa has played a significant role in human history for the first half of our known existence and all of a sudden we cant find any wonders.

 

[dh_epic]

Important fact:

SIX OUT OF SEVEN of the ancient wonders of the world were destroyed. The only one that still stands is the Great Pyramid of Giza. The Hanging Gardens, the Great Lighthouse, the Colossus, the Great Mausoleum, the Statue of Zeus and the Temple of Artemis. All destroyed by earthquakes and fires.

The reason those are included in the game, of course, is because there are important records of these having existed. Even if the wonders didn't survive, the wonders did.

In Africa, the handful of centers that had big libraries were destroyed by civil war... if not by colonization by the Europeans.

History lost forever.